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Topic: What did you do to your Royal Enfield today? (Read 262112 times)

Reaching home I parked it on its center stand before switching off the engine, walked up to the mail box & back, & MY SIGHT GLASS WAS TOTALLY FULL UP.

You should turn it off and let it sit on the center stand for a few minutes while you take your gear off, then check it. it should be about the middle of the glass.Check it in the same spot every time, pointed the same way. If your garage has any slope at all it will read differently if checked in another spot or orientation.Bare

Took another shot at soldering my broken oil feed line and finally nailed it! I seriously tried soldering this damn thing a dozen different times. It was either still leaking, or crooked or whatever. But I went out to the garage early this morning and gave it another go with a slightly different technique and now it doesn't leak a drop. So after that I decided to take advantage of the beautiful fall weather today and went down to the car wash and gave her a nice bath and washed off all of the spewed oil. After I had The Blackhawk all shiny again I took a cruise around town rattling all the Sunday drivers' windows. The bike is running soooooo good, but the clutch is cooked. Anything over 1/3 throttle at 4000+RPMs and the clutch just breaks loose. Still a blast to ride!

I took the RE out today also. Looped through Central City, then down to Evergreen and the Kerr Gulch cutoff down to 74 and into Morrison for lunch. Then back up Golden Gate Canyon/Crawford Gulch to home.

Was a great riding day today. I don't know how many more are in the cards for us out here for the rest of the year.

.......Was a great riding day today. I don't know how many more are in the cards for us out here for the rest of the year.

Cheers,

Dan K.

I know! 67*F yesterday and supposed to snow tomorrow! At least we live in Colorado and there will probably be some nice riding days in December and January when the likes of riders in the Midwest huddle around their fireplace.

Readjusted my valve lash last night. Even at .005 lash, the motor is just so noisy. Which is weird because the manual calls for .005 lash when "the motor is at constant higher RPMs". It was so damn loud on the highway it was making my ears ring! Uurrrrgh! So I went back and set them the same way I did last time, basically set the valves as tight as I could and still hear a "tick" play in the rocker. Didn't finish until late tho so didn't get a chance to fire and warm it up.